Job Posting for Commonwealth Medicine: Transformation Specialist

Commonwealth Medicine is the public service and health care consulting division of UMass Medical School, Massachusetts’ only public medical school. As a nationwide leader in the development and implementation of health care reform, Commonwealth Medicine stays ahead of health care trends and helps strategize and plan for changes that impact both health care delivery systems and patients. Applying academic research to make evidence-based recommendations, Commonwealth Medicine supports government agencies, nonprofits, and managed care organizations to meet today’s health care challenges and to prepare for what’s to come, in an effort to improve healthcare delivery and health outcomes.

The Office of Healthcare Innovation and Quality in Commonwealth Medicine provides consultation and technical assistance to payer and provider organizations in redesigning the healthcare delivery system to achieve the Triple Aim. Our experts support the design and implementation of new models of care delivery, including the Patient Centered Medical Home, Accountable Care Organizations, and the integration of behavioral and physical health care.

Under the general supervision of the Director of Transformation and Quality, the Practice/Health System Transformation Specialist will be responsible for ongoing training, support, encouragement, consultation, and monitoring to practice s and health systems as they strive for clinical and operational improvements through implementing the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) and other new health delivery models. The Transformation Specialist will also assist in the development and implementation of learning collaboratives focused on supporting practices and health systems in transforming the way they deliver care.

Responsibilities:

Foster practices’ or health systems’ understanding and implementation of the PCMH and other new health delivery model concepts.

Provide a mechanism of information exchange and dissemination to share best practices among practices and health systems.

Provide QI leadership to practices and health systems working with site teams to delineate needs and opportunities at each site, to prioritize areas of focus, assess available and needed resources, and assist in implementation.

Develop and implement plan for sustainability and spread within practices and health systems.

Provide tools to practice and health systems sites to support transformation.

Participate in practiced/ health system based program evaluation activities.

Compile and analyze site data and use this information to inform technical assistance and develop action plan for each site.

Additionally, the Transformation Specialist complies with established internal UMMS departmental policies, procedures, and objectives; attends variety of meetings, conferences, seminars as required or directed; and demonstrates use of Quality Improvement in daily operations.